Improvement in binding-post safes



DANIEL FITZGERALD.

Binding Post Safe.

Patented Dec. 5, 1871.

No. 121,454.v

UNITED STATES DANIEL FITZGERALD,

0E NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN BINDING-POST SAFES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 121,454, dated December 5, 1871.

To all whom it may conce-rn:

Be it known that LDANIEL FITZGERALD, of

the city, county, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful improvement in the construction of safes, called the Binding-Post Safe; and I hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof. i To enable others to make and use my invention I proceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being had to the drawing' hereunto annexed, and making part of this specification.

Figure 1, front elevation, closed; Fig. 2, side elevation; Fig. 3, front, with the safe open; Fig. 4, side section showing it open; Fig. 5, the binding-post as connected with the safe 5 Fig. 6, section of it near the bottom, Fig. 7, section at top; Fig. 8, elevation of the binding-post showing the inner angle; Fig. 9, tray or box for papers, for which the safe is adapted.

The saine letters refer to the saine things in the drawing.

A, the door; B, a weight used as a poise to balance it when let down, G, in the binding-post section, Fig. 8, represents the safe to which the binding-post is set as a corner, D, the anges or side wings of the binding-post, E, the foot flanges. This construction of safe has no reference to making it burglar-proof or Ere-proof, but has reference to facility of construction and to elevating the safe on high and strong legs, and

to making a Writing-desk of the top, as the lid is made to open and throw back to write on; and to making a writing-table of the door A, which turns down to the horizontal; also, when only a small safe is wanted the binding-posts,

made high, receive a bookcase or any desk as part ofthe general construction.

The binding-post is made of any pattern, but it must have the iianges D to inclose the corners, as shown, Fig. 5, C, and the foot iianges E, to sustain a heavy weight. Ordinary screws may then be used to secure the post in its place.

In general construction I make the post high enough to have a standup desk at top. lfa short or low safe is to be put in, then the desk is made larger to ll up to the height, so the saine binding-posts will serve for any number and any size of safes. v

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The use of a post with anges in the construction of safes, in the manner above described.

2. The combination of the flanged post with a safe, or refrigerator, or desk, in the manner above described.

DANIEL FITZGERALD. 

